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What is it about?

This project website documents a master’s seminar work at the University of Marburg on a fully automated, low-cost and self-build environmental sensor unit used in the LOEWE research project Natur4.0. Its core part is a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B) equipped with sensors to measure incoming radiation, temperature and humidity as well as a camera and a microphone to take records of animals in forest environments.

Core Components

What it can do!

The SensorBox is a fully automated sensing unit which can be used in conjunction with a cable car mounted on specific trees to monitor environmental variables on a vertical gradient within forest structures. There is a need to regularily charge the batteries on the ground station and in case of the presence of a WLAN infrastructure the SensorBox is able to send the collected data to another station. It can help to collect data on valuable parameters which might be used together with remotley sensed imagery, e.g. by UAVs, to predict the spatial distribution of these parameters below the canopy cover.

Check it out here or follow the link to GitHub to explore the source code of the website. Note, that the content shown here comes from a student project and only covers the state of art during our two-week seminar. Check out the official documentation for more recent information.